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Prediction on the battlefield |
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How our minds are actually prediction machines |
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Maintaining humility with a predictive mind |
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Ominous behavior at the beginning of life |
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Recognizing the tells of autism and doing something about it |
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The case of William and his anxious summer at camp |
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How a forty-five-minute observation of young children predicts reactive physiology years later |
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3 Strange Situations: Growing up in a Thin-Sliced World |
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Parks, swings, and observing behavior |
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To be secure or insecure? |
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The power of Strange Situations to predict who we are |
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Predicting your child's attachment style before she's even born |
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A photographic personality |
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Is it possible to forecast the cognitive chops of someone you just interviewed? |
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Seeing goodness in(side) others |
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Spotting liars, cheaters, and aggressive people |
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5 The Targets of Our Attraction |
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The science of inferring sexual orientation |
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Is it possible to predict sexual orientation? |
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Can one conceal sexual orientation? |
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The tells of sexual orientation |
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The role of nature and nurture |
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Seeking partners in a modern age with an old brain |
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What men's lopsided faces and fancy goods tell us |
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What women's faces and figures predict |
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Accentuating our evolutionary signals with a scalpel |
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Predicting divorce from three minutes of interaction or a photograph |
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The student who lied after a bathroom break |
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Are we good lie detectors? |
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Did the bank clerk steal the money? |
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Police officers are (just) people too |
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Truth wizards and Eyes for Lies |
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IV Making The Grade: Education, Business, and Politics |
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8 The Power of Enthusiasm |
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Star teachers and their ways |
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It only takes six seconds |
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Dr. Ceci's "Enthusiasm Experiment" |
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The power of enthusiasm inside the classroom and out |
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9 Catching the Cues of the Cash Cow |
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The God-like status of CEOs |
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Is it possible to predict company profits from a CEO's face? |
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The neuroscience of perception |
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Are leaders born or made? |
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Identifying and hiring your next sales superstar |
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10 Political Punditry: Any Kid Can Do It |
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The unnatural state of democracy |
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Are we really as rational as we think we are when we vote? |
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Lessons from history: Nixon versus Kennedy, and a twelve-year-old's letter to Lincoln |
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Predicting elections from a snapshot |
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Designing the "perfect" candidate |
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| Conclusion: The Importance of Predictive Humility |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Notes |
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| References |
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| Credits |
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| Index |
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